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Koii - The blockchain project built for media - Al Morris, Koii Network
Koii is a new method to design communications infrastructure and build an internet owned by everyone. In this episode, our co-host Sergey Ross and Koii Network co-fou...
The Ugly Side of Unintentional Growth with Mark Rickmeier, TXI
Mark Rickmeier, CEO at TXI, and Aram discuss the ugly side of growth. They explore what growth for the sake of growth does to employee and customer retention, why your...
Premature Scaling: Why It Kills Startups and How to Avoid It - Ron Benegbi, Uplinq
Ron Benegbi, founder and CEO of Uplinq, speaks to our co-host Sergey about what it’s like to grow a startup without unnecessary hiring sprees, inexplicably large teams...
What Most People Don’t Tell You About Exiting Your Company - Mark Achler & Mert Hilmi Iseri
Mark Achler and Mert Hilmi Iseri join us to discuss what they learned digging through the unknown world of mergers and acquisitions while writing their book. Confident...
Transitioning from a Pro Service Company to SaaS one - Jordi Torras, Inbenta
Jordi Torras, Founder & CEO at Inbenta shares his entrepreneurial transition from a service into a product company. Talks about the challenges of starting a software ...
Celtic House VC talks hiring, raising money and failed businesses, Jonathan Graff
Jonathan Graff, VC @ Celtic House joins Aram to talk about what he looks for in founders before investing, building scalable businesses and hiring a leadership team.
Building Products For The Gig Economy - The New Norm - Scott Absher, ShiftPixy
Scott Absher joins Sergey to discuss how ShiftPixy is creating a new gig work and part-time work ecosystem that provides reliable income to workers and consistent qual...
Five Key Traits that Successful Entrepreneurs Share - Jeff Dennis, Counsel, Fasken Law
Jeff Dennis, author of the book, "Lessons from the Edge: Survival Skills for Starting and Growing a Company” shares the pitfalls of startup partnerships, different deg...
The Best VC Pitches Gets Right to the Point - Nick Adams, Differential Ventures
Nick Adams, a co-founder at Differential Ventures, shares his perspective on what makes for the most compelling startup pitches.
Startup growth principles and talent strategy - Anuj Adhiya, Underscore VC
Anuj Adhiya, author of the book 'Growth Hacking for Dummies’, stopped by to chat with me about first principles of growing your startup and how to hire better.
From a Bootstrapped startup to having 5 financing rounds and an IPO - Mike Evans, Fixer
Mike Evans is a turnaround specialist, a serial entrepreneur, an author and investor. He Co-Founded GrubHub Online Food Delivery platform back in 2002. He is currently...
Over-mentoring founders, how to exit your business - Stephen Forte, Fresco Capital
Stephen Forte, managing partner at Fresco Capital talks about everything you need to pay attention to when selling your company, dangers of having too many mentors, wh...
Passion Drives Your Startup Success - Bram Warshafsky, Shelfgram
Bram Warshafsky the Founder of Shelfgram joins me to share his startup battles and “pack it in” moments.
Entrepreneurship is a mental game - Mike Smerklo, Next Coast Ventures
Mike Smerklo has worked alongside the legends - Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. He was one of the first employees of their startup, Loudcloud. Today he’s talking abo...
Start your startup marketing from day one, with Mike Williams, CEO @ Jetstream Digital
Mike Williams, the CEO of a marketing agency Jetstream Digital stops by to chat about why you need to do marketing before building a product, finding your customers, f...
Overnight success that took me 30 years (with Founder and Owner of Danby Appliances, Jim Estill)
A legendary Canadian entrepreneur Jim Estill stops by my podcast to chat about business success, buying Danby Appliances and his wealth principles.
CEO of ACTO on product market fit, defining core values and funding (with Parth Khanna)
Parth Khanna, CEO and co-founder of ACTO, went from sleeping in his car…and pretending like he drove in from another city every morning to building a 100 employee life...
Raising Capital 101: Breakdown of the key principles from Scott Case, CEO @ Upside
In this episode, I cover everything you need to know about raising capital for your business. From why you might need to raise capital, to key principles that will hel...
The right way to build your brand online from scratch (with Nelio Leone from UrbanMonks)
Nelio Leone, founder of marketing agency UrbanMonks, talks about how to build your online brand and presence the right way with our host Sergey Ross.
Growing your startup with freelancers (ft. Growth Mentor CEO, Foti Panagiotakopoulos)
In this episode we’re interviewing Foti Panagiotakopoulos, the founder @Growthmentor about how to build your product with no code and grow your company with freelancers.
Delivering customer satisfaction, every time (with Marcus Cauchi)
Marcus joined us to share some wonderfully candid insights into working as a CRO. We talk about how aligning company goals around customer satisfaction and working to ...
Launching a company without a developer (with Bethany Stachenfeld from Sendspark)
Today’s guest is Bethany Stachenfeld, first-time co-founder & CEO at Sendspark. We’re speaking with her about the initial hurdles she faced while building her start-u...
PR stunts, word-of-mouth marketing and making your brand memorable (with Saul Colt)
Saul Colt – the self-proclaimed smartest man in the world. Our guest host Sergey Ross is interviewing Saul about how to make your business stand out and build brand af...
Increasing your revenue via building relationships & marketing (with Sam Jacobs from Pavilion)
In this episode, we had the pleasure of having Sam Jacobs, Founder of Pavilion (former Revenue Collective) to discuss community building, managing churn rates, and sta...
AirborneApp CEO Lee Gladish on the realities of committing your time as a founder
Today we’re joined by former co-founder at Reply.io and current CEO at Airborne App, Lee Gladish. We sat down to discuss the pitfalls of remaining a part-time founder,...
The road to leadership and sales career (with Christina Brady from Sales Assembly)
Today our guest host Sergey Ross is chatting with Christina Brady who takes us through her career journey in sales. Lots of takeaways on how to sell a new category pro...
How to succeed as an entrepreneur and build your community (with Swish Goswami from Trufan)
In this episode Sergey Ross, Crowdlinker guest host, sits down with Swish to talk about his life and journey towards entrepreneurship, building his brand on social med...
Honest lessons to new founders from a “deadly CEO” (with Art Shaikh)
Today on our OTR Series, we’re speaking with the self-proclaimed “crazy one that will change the world” - founder & CEO of CircleIt, Art Shaikh.
Unstack CEO on Successful Fundraising and Hiring Top Talent (with Grant Deken)
Excited to be chatting with the CEO of Unstack Grant Deken about raising money, hiring and challenges of building Unstack, no-code content management system.
Lessons from bootstrapping a company to $160K MRR in 16 months (with Stephen Hakami)
And today we are chatting with Stephen Hakami, the CEO of a bootstrapped company called Wiza. Software that creates email lists from LinkedIn.
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